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'Intervention will not stop the massacres but make it worse'

Article Abstract:

The Tutsi Prime Minister of Burundi, Antoine Nduwayo does not want an international peacekeeping force to intervene in the country where massacres are taking place. According to the Prime Minister, interference from outside could exacerbate the situation. This is a turn-round from the previous attitude of Nduwayo, who in June 1996 in Tanzania accepted an African peacekeeping force. Some 300 Tutsis were slaughtered in Bugendena, central Burundi, during the weekend of 20-21 1996, but the Prime Minister does not believe that foreign intervention could have stopped it.

The horror returns to Burundi

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Hutus carried out a massacre against Tutsis in Bugendena, Burundi, on July 20 1996, leaving around 300 people, the majority children and women, dead. Antoine Rurikera, lost his daugher-in-law, Spes-Caritas Ndayikengurukiye, aged 25, and her three children in the massacre. People who saw the massacre claim that Rwandan Hutus, former soldiers with automatic weapons, led the massacre in which Hutu peasants from the Burundian hills used spears and machetes. Houses were also burned down, some with occupants.

Army's trail of death in Burundi

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Burundi government troops appear to have slaughtered a considerable number of people in two suburbs of Bujumbura, the country's capital, when they passed through the area recently. The mainly Tutsi army was on a mission which aimed to flush out Hutu militants, but seems to have killed many of those who were too young or too weak to flee. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is now evacuating the wounded.